| Aug 28 | Introduction - web and internet: Lee Giles |
| Sept 4 | Labor day - no class |
| Sept 11 | Characterizing and searching the web: Lee Giles |
| Sept 18 | Metasearch Engines - Nabil Sarhan |
| Sept 25 | URL Crawling (Google) - Yue Huang, Yuhui Zhou |
| Oct 2 | *Privacy - Tendai Chinoda, Ashraf Ajeesh, Nishant Choudhary |
| Oct 9 | Fall Break - no class |
| Oct 16 | Web Networks - Junfeng Lu, Xiang Ji |
| Oct 23 | Focused Crawling - Ratish Pandya, Ruchita Bharga |
| Oct 30 | Web Partitioning - Jing-Ru Cheng |
| Nov 6 | Web Page Dyamics - Xiaoye Fu, Hui Han |
| Nov 13 | Adaptive Web Sites - Judy Johnson |
| Nov 20 | Web Symbolic Knowledge Extraction - Eren Manavoglu, Deven Nayyar |
| Nov 27 | Web Auctions - Secil Ugurel, Philippe Hajjar |
| Dec 4 | Recommender Systems - Ning An, Wei Xu |
* Professor present at this presentation will be: Dr.
James Wang.